Railroad-track securer.



No. 756,267. 7 PATENTED APR. 5,1904. J. 1).M0GILL. RAILROAD TRACKSEGURBR.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 4, 1903.

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UNTTEE STATES Patented April 5, 1904.

JOSHUA D. MoGILL, OF VANIVERT, OHIO.

RAILROAD-TRACK SECURER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 'No. 756,267, dated April5, 1904.

Application filed September 4, 1903. Serial No. 171,981. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSHUA D. McGILL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Vanwert, in the county of Vanwert and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Railroad-'lh-ack Securers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in railroad-track securers;and the object is to simplify and improve the existing art by providinga device for holding the rails of a railroad-track in required relativeposition with each other, so they will not spread apart or becomerelatively displaced and whereby the rails may be readily adjusted andheld in proper position parallel with each other and against turning ontheir bases, to the destruction of the track and damage to therollingstock. I accomplish these objects by the means and appliancesillustrated in the annexed drawings, to be taken as a part of thisspecification.

Reference beinghad to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of a portionof track, showing my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is atransverse section through the chairsections and showing thesecuring-bar or tierod arranged therethrough and screwed up to hold therails clamped between the chair-sections.

A designates the ties, which may be of any of the usual styles or makes,and laid thereon are the rails 1 2 of the usual type.

3 4 designate the chairs made in two parts or sections, as shown in Fig.2 of the drawings, which meet approximately at the middle of thebase-flanges of the rails. The base or body of the chair-sections extenda proper distance below the bottom of the base-flange of the rail andare formed with transverse passages 5, through which the bar or tie-rod6 is passed, as seen in the drawings. The chairsections are formed withrail-flange seats 7 in their inner faces, which take over the oppositebase-fianges of the rails. Integral with the chair-sections on the outerside faces are formed bosses 8, against which the fastening a properdistance ample to provide room for both the outer and innerfastening-nuts.

10 11 designate the outer and inner fastening and clamping nuts,respectively, and 12 13 are the locking-nuts, which may be of anyapproved. make. The threaded ends of the tierod may project beyond thelocking-nuts, so as to aiford plenty of room for the action of the nutsin instances Where the rail may be unduly out of place. In the middle ofthe tie-rod is a wrench or claw hold 14, to Which a wrench or claw maybe applied to keep the tie-rod from turning while the nuts are beingscrewed up.

A board or plate '15 may be arranged over the tie-rod, as shown in Fig.2 of the draw ings and indicated in Fig. 1 in dotted lines; but I do notdeem the board or plate absolutely essential and it may be left off.

The invention is useful in many respects. By its use the track may beset to the proper gage and so held, the rails will be securely heldagainst spreading, and spread rails may be readily drawn into gageposition, and all the chair-sections can be made from a single patternand applied by simply reversing them.

The application of the device is readily apparent to any trackman. Theinner set of nuts can be screwed upon the tie-rod, then thechair-sections placed on the rod, and the outer set of nuts can bestarted on the rod. The rod with its equipments can then be passed underthe rails, the chair-sections placed on the base-flanges of the rails,and then the clamping adjustments made.

-Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new is 1. Thecombination with rails, of chair-sections embracing the base-flanges ofsaid rails and having depending portions under the baseflanges of therails formed with alined passages therethrough, the inner opposing edgesof the chair-sections below the base-flanges of the rails being in closecontact, a tie-rod having its opposite extremities fully screw-threadedat distances inwardly from the ends of the rod and also provided with acentral claw-hold, and locking and jam nuts arranged in pairs on thescrew-threaded extremities of the rod vided with a central claw-hold,and locking and jam nuts arranged in pairs on the oppositescrew-threaded extremities of the rod, the locking-nuts of each pairbearing against the said bosses, the said bosses facilitating the ap--plication of the nuts intight relation to the chair-sections.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

JOSHUA D. MOGILL. Witnesses:

' LEWIS HEFFNER,

OSCAR W. PRIDDY.

